The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1887-07-21

entered, very largely brought about
by the policy pursued with regard to
the convicts, will soon create demand
for all the convicts we are likely to have,
for new improvements, to be paid for IN
cash, which will go largely toward making
the lenitentiary self sustaining insti-
tuition
The National Educational Convention
in session at Chicago has adopted resolu-
tions affirming the duty of the government
to aid the Southern States in their work of
overcoming illiteracy and urging Congress
to pass the Blair bill as a measure to this
end This leads the New Berne Journal
to say: The distribution of the large sur
plus in the National treasury cannot be
done in better way than aiding the pub
lie schools. By such distribution the money
goes at once into every nelghborhood and
in no other way can II accomplish more
good in aiding the cause of education and
giving such general relief in financial mat
ters We are not welded to the Blair bill.
1t has some very Objectionable features,
but still it would be better than nothing.
When Congress cOnvenes, the Democrats,
if they listen to the wishes of the people,
will at once agree upon bill giving AID
to schools, with the Objectionable features
of the Blair bill eliminated.
The Rockingham Rocket says that Gov
ernor Scales is kept busy appointing mag
istrates to supply the places of those
appointed by the last Legislature who
failed to qualify. There were over 500
places to fill, showing that two-thlrds OF
those appointed by the Legislature declined
to assume the duties Of the office. This IS
significant of fact which we have long
observed and regretted, viz, that the best
fitted men in a community, generally
speaking, are totally averse TO acting as
magistrates. The best qualified of our
citizens almost invariably decline to serve.
1t should not be thus especially when
there is such risk to run of having to sub
nit to the appointment of men OF opposite
politics from the ruling party, or Of men
which is worse) whose party principles
=
take it that the Legislature III its appoint
ments sought to put in competent men IN
each county, and that they had superior
advantages of information to insure wise
selections However, the Governors ap-
pointments-so far as we know-will give
satisfaction.
~, har n a 81
the hundred mark in Lynchburg, one of
the mountain towns. the newspapers are
excited over the forthcoming Democratic
Convention. and, what's more, they are
| quarrelling among themselves as to the
/ stand which the Convention, representing
/ the party, should assume. There is nc
North Carolnian, says the Wilmington
| Messenger who does not feel some inter
est in the Virginia debt question. We
| have a little trouble of our own, and sym
| pathy makes us wondrous kind Is it not
/ on record that some foolish financiera and
4 spectators in New York have arranged
! a plan" whereby they hope to force the
/ State into paying debt for which the
majority Of its people were never response
| BILE, which they will never be coerced into
/ paying, and which they simply regard as
| one of the legacies of Republican misrule
/ Our State debt need trouble the conscience
/ of no Democratic voter. 1t IS one OF the
scars left by the silded bugs that swarmed
| into the State under Republican misrule.
| 1t represents no honest obligation. 1t Is
simply stigma sought to be placed or
the Commonwealth by disreputable band
| of rogues and despoilers. Those who suf
fer have to thank the party Of great mora
| ideas for their losses.
There are rumors floating through oul
| city to the effect that the w. & W. r. R
is again trying to secure the lease of the
| A IN c. R. Z. In this it is said thai
the W. Il W. is aided by the Raleigh ant
| CASTOR, the consideration of whose actor
is found IN the fact that more freights viii
thereby pass over the Seaboard road from
Weldon. The suggestion seems plausible
| TO say the least of it. The W. II W. is
| corporation of more than usual hberallty
and for the most part does its duty by thu
public, and for this reason we like it. Bu
we nevertheless are perfectly sure that i
will be an evil day for Goldsboro ant
| Eastern Carolina when that road control
the A. & N. G.. Indeed we cannot believ
that Governor Scales and the State direc
tors will for one moment entertain an.
| proposition from the W. & W. looking t.
the accomplishment of such a lease. Il
do SO would be at once to put us unde
the absolute control Of one road-to de
stroy competition hereto destroy proba
bly the steamboat lines at Newbern b.
forcing all the freight to come this wa
by a system Of cutthroat rates unit
such a time as the steamboats, are driver
off. Then will come the evil day and the
woe unto the man who made the lease
Goldsboro Argus.
Daniel Webster not Enrolled.
~ l., White in The American Magazine.